Hi,

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 3:06 AM, scl wrote:

Hi,

beside the 'Summer of Code' program for students Google offers 'Code-In', a program for pre-university students, ages 13-17 years old. The program can be found at http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013

Tasks for these students include coding, documentation, training, community management, outreach/marketing, problem solving, quality assurance and user interface tasks. I could i.e. imagine tasks in the fields of GEGL porting, testing, documenting, translation, website maintenance, bug triaging etc.

I had a look. I did not read all, but this looks interesting. Maybe even more than the normal gsoc on another level, because it may be more manageable than huge 3-month projects that may end up or not merged in after years. If I got the concept, these younger students would make much smaller projects, and could do many of them on various projects. Like few-day-length projects. So that's a faster pace for mentors, but in the same time, if code for instance, that will be very small patches. So we check the few line changes, and if good, we approve the student work and can push the code to master without waiting for 3 years.

For code tasks for instance, I would not see GEGL porting, because that involves quite an involvement for the student to comprehend all the concepts. But I could see GNOME-LOVE bugs/features or other easy tasks in GIMP, GEGL, babl or even GTK+ when they have direct visible impact in GIMP. Test case writing could be nice too.

Extensive testing, bug reporting would be good.

And obviously documentation! I'm sure Patdavid would not be against students re-writing some of the tutorial with new screenshots. And we could use updating of gimp-help too.

Do we want to join this program this year?

Anyway all this to say, why not? I would be glad to mentor too. :-)

Jehan

Kind regards,

Sven
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Hi again,

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote:

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 3:06 AM, scl wrote:

Hi,

beside the 'Summer of Code' program for students Google offers 'Code-In', a program for pre-university students, ages 13-17 years old. The program can be found at http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013

Well I checked possible tasks:

- Coding: we have a bunch of GNOME-LOVE bugs: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=keywords%3Agnome-love+product%3A%22GIMP%22+ By definition, they should not take too long for young but autonomous developers. Each can be considered 1 task.

- Doc: I checked the gimp-help-2 repo. We don't have any doc written for several new features. For instance there is apparently no page for the unified transform tool. No page for the warp tool. Nothing about the new 16/32 bit precision, etc.

I'm sure each of these could be considered 1 full task for a young student, if done well (with nice screenshot, comprehensive text, and following DocBook syntax, etc.).

- Tutorial: won't say further, I guess patdavid should be the one saying what is suitable.

The price here is t-shirts for anyone who complete 3 tasks, and a trip with their parents to Google headquarters for 20 big winners. That's not much, so tasks should stay simple stuff. Actually that's the disappointing stuff, and the only reason why this program is not so nice (I would never have participated with such prizes when I was a kid!), because I don't want to use cheap labor. But for kids who like Free Software and want to participate anyway, yeah why not.

Jehan

Do we want to join this program this year?

Anyway all this to say, why not? I would be glad to mentor too. :-)

Jehan

Kind regards,

Sven
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Hello,

and there is the Outreach Program for Women: https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen

I thin that could be very interesting for Gimp too.

Regards, Tobias

2013/10/12 scl :

Hi,

beside the 'Summer of Code' program for students Google offers 'Code-In', a program for pre-university students, ages 13-17 years old. The program can be found at http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013

Tasks for these students include coding, documentation, training, community management, outreach/marketing, problem solving, quality assurance and user interface tasks. I could i.e. imagine tasks in the fields of GEGL porting, testing, documenting, translation, website maintenance, bug triaging etc.

Do we want to join this program this year?

Kind regards,

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Hi,

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Tobias Jakobs wrote:

Hello,

and there is the Outreach Program for Women: https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen

Looks nice. At least they have real payment. It does not feel like cheap labor.

I thin that could be very interesting for Gimp too.

I'd be glad to mentor someone there too.

Jehan

Regards,
Tobias

2013/10/12 scl :

Hi,

beside the 'Summer of Code' program for students Google offers 'Code-In', a program for pre-university students, ages 13-17 years old. The program can be found at http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013

Tasks for these students include coding, documentation, training, community management, outreach/marketing, problem solving, quality assurance and user interface tasks. I could i.e. imagine tasks in the fields of GEGL porting, testing, documenting, translation, website maintenance, bug triaging etc.

Do we want to join this program this year?

Kind regards,

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I think it looks great, and I'm always up for getting more great tutorial/reference/docs for the site. I can also try to make myself available to mentor if needed. Just let me know.

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Jehan Pags wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Tobias Jakobs wrote:

Hello,

and there is the Outreach Program for Women: https://wiki.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen

Looks nice. At least they have real payment. It does not feel like cheap labor.

I thin that could be very interesting for Gimp too.

I'd be glad to mentor someone there too.

Jehan

Regards,
Tobias

2013/10/12 scl :

Hi,

beside the 'Summer of Code' program for students Google offers 'Code-In', a program for pre-university students, ages 13-17 years old. The program can be found at http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013

Tasks for these students include coding, documentation, training, community management, outreach/marketing, problem solving, quality assurance and user interface tasks. I could i.e. imagine tasks in the fields of GEGL porting, testing, documenting, translation, website maintenance, bug triaging etc.

Do we want to join this program this year?

Kind regards,

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